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311 – end
BC 100-0
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950-1950
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economists
1700-1800
1800-1900
Religion
Laws, Trade, & Army
Extensive trade of Phoenician Republics C.O.C.T. 17C
Moses
Rig Vedas
Between 1500
& 1200
Max Muller
Chips III
Sestius irrigates Egypt by canals & levies systematic land tax (Herod).
Trade flourishes in hereditary castes
Troy taken
Solomon’s Temple
Cordrus
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Jesophat could bring a million soldiers into the field
Dido founds Carthage
Code of
Manu
Lycurgus?
Rome
6
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700
The East
8
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300
Greek Religion
Greek Pol & Soc Thought
10
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0 BC
AD 0
10
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100
[[Henceforth: all only partially transcribed]]
Death of Marius
32
[[Several vertical life-lines: Lucretius, Cicero, Sallust,
etc]]
First Triumvaraate
Actium
P 34
[[One vertical line
on left side of page
with dates of
emperors: Vespian,
Titus, etc]]
On the right side of
page = various
events, e.g. at 70
AD = destruction
of Jerusalem
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[[Several vertical life-lines: Senecca, Tacitus, Epictetus,
etc]]
38
[[Several vertical life-lines: St Peter, St Paul, Josephus,
etc]]
100
10
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30
40
50
60
70
80
90
200
P 40
[[One vertical line
on left side of page
with dates of
emperors: Trajan,
Hadrian, etc]]
On the right side of
page = various
events, e.g. around
115 AD =
Hardrian’s Wall
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Also one or more
text boxes (text =
second great
migration of
Germans
Something)
P 42
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[[Vertical life-lines: Plutarch, Pausanius, etc]]
44
[[Various events listed according to date:
e.g. ‘third persecution of Christians’]]
200
10
20
30
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50
60
70
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90
200
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P 46
[[One vertical line
on left side of page
with dates of
emperors]]
On the right side of
page = various
events, e.g.
someone enters
Darcia
[[Various life-lines]]
Also one or more
text boxes
48
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300
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
400
P 50
[[One vertical line
on left side of page
with dates of
emperors]]
On the right side of
page = various
events, e.g.
Division of Empire
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Also one or more
text boxes
52
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400
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
500
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P 54
Aleric sacks Rome
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Empire of Visigoths in Spain
Gesseric with 80,000 vandals crosses over
to Carthage & founds empire
[[and many more + some boxes]]
56
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500
10
20
30
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P 58
Theoderic dies
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First Monastery of the West
40
50
60
70
80
90
600
Justinian Pandects
Belisarius takes Rome
[[and many more + some boxes]]
60
Church History
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[[stuff like St Augustine arrives in England,
Miracles increase, etc]]
600
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
700
P 62
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[[several events, I think to do with
Mohamed and Islam]]
[[on right side of page = long vertical box
covering most of page: formation of
Republican Cities of Italy]]
64
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100
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P 68
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70
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74
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76
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80
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700
10
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P 84
Anglo Saxons
Franks
[[various events]]
[[Time-line with kings of Franks: Pipin and
Charlemagne]
[[various events]]
86
[[whole load of events]]
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[[vertical text box on right side of page:
Increasing power of popes]]
[[No more pages are recorded until…]]
118
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We owe it to one man that (Simon de Montfort) that the
wonderful thirteenth century, that great creative and
destructive age throughout the world, was to us an age of
creation and not of destruction... The thiteenth century
was the time when most of the existing states and nations
of Europe took something like their present form &
constitution. The great powers which had hitherto in
name at least divided the Christian and Mohamadeen
world, the Eastern and Western Empires, & the Eastern
and Western Caliphates may now be looked on as
practically coming to an end. England, France, Spain
began to take something like their present shape, & to
show the beginings of the characteristic position &
policy of each. The chief languages of Europe assumed
something like their present shape. In short, the
character of the age as a time of beginings & endings
might be traced out in detail throughout the most part of
Europe and Asia." [*]
[*] This is a quotation from p. 66 of Freeman’s book on The Growth of the English Constitution from
the Earliest Times
This long quotation – or put another way, the 13th century – appears to divide the ancient from the
modern periods covered by the Red Book.
It is only now, in the pages after 118, that we encounter (a) diagrams (e.g. prices of wheat and other
commodities mapped in different colours) and (b) strips cut into the bottom horizontal margin (x-axis)
with category labels I-XII in Roman numerals. In other words, modern history is presented as
inherently more complicated, as well as potentially more quantitative than ancient history.